On 13.03.2014 22:08, Xin Li wrote:
> Hi, Pawel,
>
> I have noticed that casperd's child (zygote) would still use
> controlling session from parent. This can be observed by running
> ps -ax on systems running casperd, where the child have a spurious
> console associated.
>
> The attached patch would fix it. May I commit it against -HEAD?
>
> By the way, the zygote child also closes file descriptor 4 twice
> (harmless; it's either sp[0] or the /dev/null which is closed
> before starting zygote_main, or before returning from stdnull().
> Based on the construct of the code, I believe both close() can be
> omitted. If this makes sense I'll submit a new patch.
Wouldn't this patch break support for external monitoring e.g. by
daemontools. By convention a daemontools run script is started with
its own process group and execs into the service. If a service tries
to unconditionally create its own process group it will fail.
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